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Graduate Project Management

Location:
Cumbria
Contract type:
Graduate
Functions:
Project Management, Graduate
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Project Management Graduate

Who we are at Morgan Sindall Infrastructure:

We deliver some of the UK’s most complex and critical infrastructure across six core sectors of energy, water, nuclear, highways, rail and aviation for public and private customers. Working on projects and long-term frameworks, we believe in connecting people, places and communities through innovative and responsible infrastructure.

Our people are our business. Through their expertise, we harness innovative ideas and approaches that enable us to design and deliver resilient infrastructure upon which the UK relies safely and responsibly. Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK construction and regeneration group with revenue of over £3 billion.

Our structured Graduate Programme provides you with opportunities for both personal development and technical training to support your early career in the construction engineering industry. As part of the team from day one, you will access further training and practical experience along with having increasing levels of responsibility needed to become a registered professional engineer, ready to map out your personal next steps towards a long and rewarding career.

Our Graduate Programme:

In short, our Graduate Programme offers:

  • Comprehensive Development.
  • Practical Exposure.
  • Individual Focus.
  • Professional Recognition.
  • A Supportive Community of past graduates and career professionals across multiple disciplines.

Our structured development Graduate programme covers a variety of personal development and technical training to support your well-rounded development. Our programme blends practical exposure to enhance your discipline specific abilities whilst enhancing your individual personal development during your early career. 

You’ll also be offered a professional scheme mentor to help you on your path to chartership with your specific professional institute. 

We have a great group of early careers currently in the business and plenty of experienced colleagues who get involved in supporting you at every step of the way! 

What you'll be doing:

A colleague at this level will take responsibility for delivering specific tasks, goals, and objectives. As part of the graduates development they will initially work under direction with day-to-day support from colleagues and mentors. They are expected to work proactively and deliver defined tasks to an industry standard. They will manage their own tasks within the context of a project or company objective 

In operations they will initially assist in managing small or medium projects on site before progressing to manage projects of increasing size / complexity independently.  

  • Assisting the Project Team across all areas of Project Management from development of the business case, through implementation to final Project Close out. 
  • Assisting in ensuring safe, successful execution and completion of a number of projects meeting defined timescales, quality standards and commercial objectives. 
  • Managing relationship’s internal and external. 

About Nuclear:

Projects in the Nuclear sector cover a wide variety of scope from upgrading electrical distribution, bridge construction or pumping systems up to the construction of brand new facilities that are of significant national importance.

Working on these key frameworks there is a constant pipeline of projects that will challenge and develop your skills and provide the opportunity to excel and progress in your career.

Shadowing qualified personnel to gain an understanding of the role and to be mentored on the job.

The Nuclear Business Unit’s continued growth and success is down to the drive, ambition and creativity of our people. That’s why we’re committed to supporting you every step of the way.

We believe coming to work should be fun and enable you to be your best self.

What qualifications and desirables are required?

  • Project Management or Engineering Degree
  • Ability to travel or drive to remote site locations if needed.
  • Ideally some exposure to a construction/engineering environment.

You will need the ability to:

  • Drives to achieve consistent results and consistent quality performance.
  • Rational and systematic analysis of situation to enable decisions on more varied issues Questioning the evidence to evaluate issues.
  • Communicates positively with clarity and understanding.
  • Presents information in a structured way Demonstrates confidence when communicating in own subject.
  • Positive attitude to change when presented Contributes to change in own area of work.
  • Contribute to the overall team objectives, understand how to be part of a team and regularly cooperate with team members.
  • Ability to take control of situations within one’s sphere of influence and assume responsibility – organising and guiding where necessary.
  • Assist the project team in creating a plan for a familiar project or process and understand what resources are required. Help bring resources together and ensure they are efficiently deployed using diverse skills and methods to deliver results while understanding the points of view of others.
  • Make an objective and structured case with pros and cons and understand the need to give and take.
  • Can respond well within tested frameworks of development to identify own needs and use personal experience to build own skills.
  • Be geographically mobile – our projects and supply chain partners are UK wide and can be in rural and remote locations. You will need to be able to commit to travelling independently to sites and able to stay away from home for short and longer periods.

Why join our team?

Please visit Working with us | Morgan Sindall Infrastructure to understand our values and company benefits.

We work on a range of exciting projects in various locations across the UK, you can read more about them here.

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited as a Disability Confident employer.  We have also been awarded platinum accreditation against the Investors in People Standard.

Please note Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. We have a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

Please see attached advert for addiditonal information.

 

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